Thursday, 4 February 2016

Super size me fallacies, more info, finishing it, Morgan and Alex and worst documentaries?

So today we finished watching supersize me and of course the results were as shocking as you would expect. In the one month Mc Donald's binge Morgan gained 10% of his body fat caused serious liver damage, saw all his medical results decline in health, lost his sex drive, felt depressed and experienced mood swings and found that the food was like a drug. He did however make a full recovery and get back to how he used to be. So he was therefore successful in proving that Mcdonald's is lethal. His documentary is successful. But we were asked to examine today if this is a good documentary.

The thing that has been found with this documentary is that Morgan spur docks results cannot be replicated.
- He said he at 5000 calories a day, but realise that a large big mac, which is the fattiest thing on the entire McDonalds menu only had 1450 calories. If he was sticking to his own rules he could not have eaten that much.
- The university of Linkopin in Sweden decided to do his experiment with university students. They were made to eat 6000 calories of fast food every day.
- It turned out tat at the end of it they had no liver or cholesterol troubles
- Their metabolism was able to adapt, according to science
- none had troubled moods or depression at all.
- The results were therefore somewhat exaggerated.





Class discussion and exaggeration?
- His weight was seriously exaggerated
- The fact that they were acting like by day thirty that he was dying
- We didn't see what he ate really for all those times
- He could have been doing lots of other things to effect his health
- There are so many things he can skew his results in a blood test

Morgan Spurdock?
- Before Super size me he was on an MTV reality show called I bet you will where he dared people to eat disgusting foods. (One woman shaved her head and she ate it mixed with butter)
- He also released another documentary after supersize me called where in the world is Osama bin Laden, he tries to view the argument of terrorism from both sides and tries to find Osama bin laden
- he directed the Simpsons 20th anniversary special
- he also made a 2011 documentary called the greatest movie ever sold all about product placement.

Alex Jamieson
- She began cooking professionally in Milan Italy
- She was a vegetarian chef at Paul Newmans hole in the wall gang camp cooking for children with life threatening illnesses.
- She became a vegan after battles with sugar addiction, migraines, fatigue and candidiasis
- She has a health food vegan website but announced in 2013 that she was no longer vegan
- At the time of the Super size documentary Alex was working on a vegan cook book (Sort of promotion)
- She used Morgans detox diet to release a detox ebook.

Top 5 worst documentaries?
room 237
kony 2012
white people
the creators 2015
Hot girls wanted

More info on other fallacy documentary
Bowling for columbine
- The guy first walks into a bank and opens an account and for doing this he gets a free shot gun
- In real life its not that easy, it happens but its not that easy.
- You cannot force a person to do something in a documentary but you can edit it carefully

Nanook of the North
- About an eskimo called Nanook
- Typically they would wear furs, live in igloos and would fish, hunt and spear for food.
- We think that because of this documentary
- They made it about Nanook of the north and his two wives but they were not his wives they were the directors.
- Eskimos actually live in houses

Super size me is on this list

Frozen planet by David Atonbra it was actually filmed in an alaskan zoo.

An inconvenient truth
- An Algore documentary

The greater good
- About detrimental effects of vaccination
- Made by anti vaccers

The great global warming swindle
- Basically saying that global warming does not exist





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